Tag Search: “public health”
Impact Evaluation of a Public Health Insurance Plan in India: Post Health Event Survey Pilot
This project pilots a Post Health Event Survey (PHES). The PHES is a potentially more efficient survey strategy than conducting one annual survey of all households. The PHES pilot was conducted in two...
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Cynthia Kinnan
Anup Malani
Alessandra Voena
01 September, 2015
- IGC Research on India
Beyond toilets: Improving the sanitation value chain
Besides access to toilets, proper treatment and disposal of waste is essential for effective sanitation. In this article, Sujaya Rathi - Principal Research Scientist at CSTEP who is currently involve...
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Sujaya Rathi
21 July, 2015
- Notes from the Field
Drafting India's new national health policy: A window of opportunity
The Indian government is working on drafting a new national health policy and designing a health assurance mission, in parallel with developing its national health accounts. In this article, Nata Men...
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Chandrakant Lahariya
Nata Menabde
15 July, 2015
- Perspectives
India's national immunisation programme: Moving from policy to action
About a year ago, the Prime Minister’s Office in India announced the introduction of four new vaccines in the national immunisation programme. In this article, Chandrakant Lahariya, a public health p...
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Chandrakant Lahariya
08 June, 2015
- Perspectives
Encouraging household investment in sanitation
While the detrimental effects of poor sanitation are widely known, there is disagreement about the key barriers to expanding improved sanitation coverage. This column presents results from a field ex...
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Raymond Guiteras
James Levinsohn
Mushfiq Mobarak
13 May, 2015
- Articles
Getting centre-state relations right for health in India
The 14th Finance Commission has recommended devolving a greater share of revenues to states in order to give them more control over spending. In this article, Amanda Glassman and Anit Mukherjee exami...
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Amanda Glassman
Anit Mukherjee
01 April, 2015
- Perspectives
How serious is the government about Swachh Bharat Mission?
The recently announced Union budget 2015-16 has reduced the central government allocation for Swachh Bharat Mission – the flagship sanitation programme of the government. In this article, Sangita Vya...
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Sangita Vyas
20 March, 2015
- Perspectives
Public spending on health coverage: Are we raising the right questions?
The National Health Assurance Mission – India’s first move towards Universal Health Coverage – is expected to be launched soon. In this context, this column analyses the extent, distribution and qual...
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Samik Chowdhury
Indrani Gupta
13 February, 2015
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Taxing Tobacco
The steep increase in excise taxes on cigarettes in this year’s Union Budget is a welcome move. However, this column argues that unless more commonly consumed bidis are also taxed heavily, the public ...
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Rijo M. John
09 December, 2014
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Financing Sanitation
The Government of India has set a rather ambitious goal of eliminating open defecation by 2019. For urban areas, this implies providing toilets to about 22 million households. This column contends th...
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Meera Mehta
Dinesh Mehta
11 November, 2014
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Analysing efficiency of government hospitals in West Bengal
Given the insufficient public investment in the health sector in India, optimal utilisation of resources in the sector is crucial. This column analyses the efficiency of secondary government hospital...
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Satarupa Bandyopadhyay
Arijita Dutta
Arpita Ghose
24 October, 2014
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Intervention design of Integrated Performance Management System (IPMS) for ICDS
Leakages from the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) have compromised the effectiveness of the programme. The study proposed a new design for an effective monitoring system for the ICDS progra...
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Ronald Abraham
Andrew Fraker
15 September, 2014
- IGC Research on India